How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Update on Geology and the Election
I was glued to my computer last night both to see how the future of country would take shape but see if the Blue Belt…
View More Update on Geology and the ElectionBeneath Antarctic Ice: Gelatinous Edition
Big tip ‘o the hat to @RebeccaRHelm on Twitter for sharing this beautiful video with great music on it. Make sure you stick with the…
View More Beneath Antarctic Ice: Gelatinous EditionDSN’s Must Have Whip: The Aquaman Kia Rio
As soon as dollars start falling from the sky I will be ordering one of these for everyone in the DSN superteam. The Aquaman Rio…
View More DSN’s Must Have Whip: The Aquaman Kia RioIs this fish evil?
I was going to do a “demons of the deep” post for Halloween but as I was considering which animals to include I had to…
View More Is this fish evil?Awesomesauce Abounds! Donate and Win a Giant Squid
AND I COUDLN’T BE MORE EXCITED! The very talented Kate Herweck, a postdoctoral fellow at NESCent studying plant genomes, made this knitted DSN Giant Squid…
View More Awesomesauce Abounds! Donate and Win a Giant SquidWhy Haven’t You Donated?
Hey you! Yeah you sitting there staring at your computer screen. You haven’t donated to the DSN Donor’s Choose Challenge have you? I know the…
View More Why Haven’t You Donated?In the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last long
If you haven’t seen the VENUS deep-sea observatory’s pig-in-the-ocean experiments, you’ve been missing out. I saw them present this work at a conference a couple…
View More In the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last longCan You Handle Monster Roll?
Monster Roll from Dan Blank on Vimeo. This. Looks. Amazing. From their FB page: “When sea monsters attack Los Angeles, a network of sushi chefs…
View More Can You Handle Monster Roll?Weekend classic: Waves across the Pacific
Ever wonder what state-of-the-art oceanography was like in 1963? If so, watch as an intrepid bunch of oceanographers track waves generated in the Antarctic all the way…
View More Weekend classic: Waves across the PacificMOAR internal waves from space!
Once again, I am going to profess my love for atmospheric scientists and the cool internal wave images they keep sending me. Click on the…
View More MOAR internal waves from space!